Board of Directors

Brad Geiger | Board Chair

Brad Geiger is Head of Talent Management for Martin Marietta.


Head of Talent Development, Performance Management and Succession for 10,000 employee international mining organization. Learning and Development leader with more than 20 years of corporate training and development experience and College/University teaching experience.

2024-25 Board of Directors

Braxton Anthony, Chair-elect 
Rich Commercial Realty 

Ryan Berglund, Ex-Officio
24-25 WCPSS Teacher of the Year

 Emma Browning 
Paradox Consulting Partners 

 Rob Buhler
Crane Stationery

 Seth Carruthers
Parker Lord 

 Rene Daughtry 
Cisco Systems

 Marie Dexter, Ex-Officio 
Wake County PTA Council

Scott Duda
Cherry & Bekaert, LLP 

David Ellis, Ex-Officio 
Wake County Manager 

 Brad Geiger, Chair 
Martin Marietta 

 David Gillham 
Pendo 

Gary Greene 
Greene Resources, Inc. 

 Cara Greening 
T.A. Loving Company 

John Hummel 
Sinclair Broadcasting Group 

 Chad Humphrey 
Balfour Beatty 

 Carey Hunter 
Principal Financial Group

Shejuanna Jacobs

24-25 WCPSS Principal of the Year 

Stephanie Jensen 
BASF 

Rod Malone
Tharrington Smith, LLP 

Amy Manning
FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies

Scot McAlexander 
TowneBank

 Shannon McSwiney
Delta Dental of North Carolina

 James Montague
F7 Development

Kamar Perkins  
NC National Guard / When People Work 

Gil Shoaf
John Deere

Iman Rasheed
UNC Health

Will Quick 
Brooks Pierce 

Marion Robinson 
Retired, SECU 

Lily Ryzebol
IBM

Jamie Royster 
Lenovo

Sebastian Shipp

24-25 WCPSS Asst. Principal of the Year

Robert Taylor, Ex-Officio 
Wake County Public School System Superintendent 

Chris Torgler 
Amazon 

Jack Turnwald 
Humancentric LLC 

Cleon Umphrey 
Retired, RDU Airport Authority

Andrea Wun
Construction Partners, Inc.

Cyndy Yu-Robinson 
Kramden Institute 

The Board of Directors is the governing body for WakeEd Partnership. It is primarily made up of business and community leaders who are deeply involved in public education. To join our Board, contact WakeEd President Keith Poston at kposton@wakeed.org

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